This project explores Brooklyn as a case study of gentrification.Part Ifollows my historical investigation.Covering several neighborhoods, I mix historical found imagery with my photographs of today's city-scape. This spans several decades and for each street corner, gives a simultaneously absurd and surreal glimpse into its past and its future.Part IIreflects my personal story.I lived in Bushwick through the course of a decade, from poor immigrant art-student to "gentrified" landlord. This made me question and challenge the ambivalence of my feelings about this transition. The resulting sculptures are a combination of my photographic images of gentrified spaces, inserted into locally found, decades-old, fixtures. Loosely inspired by Gordon Matta Clark, the object becomes a hybrid of old and new, like the gentrified landscape.Part IIItakes a closer look at the human repercussions.The 'locals', the neighborhood's old-timers, are disappearing (through a visual metaphor) in front of the newcomers, portraying a new sense of social alienation. Graffiti is present as an interesting signifier of upcoming gentrification: it reveals a sub-cultural resistance, while being trademarked and packaged to sell the neighborhood to the highest bidders.As in my previous work, I use the landscape as a platform for discussion. While exploring Brooklyn's gentrification I point out the socio-economical consequences of a new and changing environment. Even as we expand this view to the evolution of our global world, we must pay attention to the price we pay as a society.

In the background, image depicting the Plaza in 1906. Layered with my recent photographs of the massive developments on the surrounding blocks. Contrasting the historical open space with the density of the present landscape.

Hasidic Jewish sitting on a bench at the waterfront promenade of what is now the Brooklyn Bridge Park... Are they looking at the promised land?... Interior shots from my current Bushwick demolished building with pigeons (doves symbolizing freedom) locked in this wooden raw walls jail.On the right side, orange container used as public bathroom in the new pier, with the world "toilet" in all languages... including Hebrew and Yiddish. In the water, 1906 images of boats.

Second floor of my 1261 Madison st, building in Bushwick, after demolition in 2015.Images of the emblematic Williamsburg Sugar Factory building during its 2016 controversial reconversion into massive luxury condominiums. 2016 artwork from the lobby of a new Williamsburg waterfront tower building.Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge photographs, some from 1906 and mine from 2016.Multi ethnicity symbols with Hanukya, Christmas tree...

Reflects my personal story. I lived in Bushwick through the course of a decade, from poor immigrant art-student to "gentrified" landlord. This made me question and challenge the ambivalence of my feelings about this transition. The resulting sculptures are a combination of my photographic images of gentrified spaces, inserted into locally found, decades-old, fixtures.Loosely inspired by Gordon Matta Clark, the object becomes a hybrid of old and new, like the gentrified landscape.These photographic sculptures are all edition of 1, unique piece.

Takes a closer look at the human repercussions.The 'locals', the neighborhood's old-timers, are disappearing (through a visual metaphor) in front of the newcomers, portraying a new sense of social alienation. Graffiti is present as an interesting signifier of upcoming gentrification: it reveals a sub-cultural resistance, while being trademarked and packaged to sell the neighborhood to the highest bidders.As in my previous work, I use the landscape as a platform for discussion. While exploring Brooklyn's gentrification I point out the socio-economical consequences of a new and changing environment. Even as we expand this view to the evolution of our global world, we must pay attention to the price we pay as a society.